Twenty
years ago, I met a client at work that I found had no one to spend Christmas
with, no one that cared. My daughter and I invited him to Christmas dinner. We
showered him with dollar store gifts and shared the love of Christ. Since then
we have spent every holiday together. Somehow, we have become family.

He is
nearing the end of his race. Because the burden of his care is heavy, I almost
did not write this post. However, God knew exactly where I would be when this
day came. There are no words to describe how powerfully God used this lesson to
infuse me with courage, comfort, and strength. Wherever you are in your race, I pray you find the same.

This
excerpt is titled “The Son Himself God” from Andrew Murray’s The Holiest of All:

In contrast to what is said of the angels as servants, the
Holy Spirit hath said of the Son, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.
Christ is not only the Son, but is God. He is one with the Father: as Son He is
partaker of the Father's own nature and being.

Christ is God: to many Christians this has been a
dead article of faith, held fast and proved out of Scripture, but without any
living influence on the soul. To the true believer it is one of the deepest and
most precious truths for the nourishment of the inner life. Christ is God: the soul worships Him as
the Almighty One, able to do a divine work in the power of divine omnipotence.

Christ is God: even as God works in all nature
from within, and in secret, so the soul trusts Christ as the everywhere present
and the Indwelling One, doing His saving work in the hidden depths of its
being. Christ is God: in Him we come
into living contact with the person and life of God Himself. The truth lies at
the foundation of our Epistle, and the Christian life it would build up: Christ is God.

Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. As God, Christ is King: the throne of heaven belongs to Him. When
an earthly father has begotten a son, they may be separated from each other by
great distance, both in place and character, and know each other no more.

In the divine Being it is not so. The Father and the Son are
inseparable, one in life and love; all that the Father is and has, the Son is
and has too. The Father is ever in the Son, and the Son in the Father. God is
on the throne and Christ in Him: the throne and the kingdom are Christ's too.

Forever and ever. Christ
is the King eternal. His dominion is an everlasting dominion. The full
meaning of the word eternal will become clear to us later on. Eternal is that
which each moment and always exists in its full strength, immoveable,
unchangeable.

"We receive a kingdom that cannot be moved,"
because our King is God, and His kingdom for ever and ever. The rule of Christ
our Priest-King, even now, in our souls, is in the power of an endless, an
imperishable life: the faith that receives this will experience it.